Historical Hysterics
What is the Manhattan Project
The name of the bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
What is the Little Boy?
The director of the Manhattan Project
BWR
What is a Boiling Water Reactor?
The 3 primary components of an atom
What are Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons?
The name of the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
What is the Enola Gay
The name of the largest nuclear bomb.
What is the Tsar Bomba?
The discoverer of Polonium and Radium
Who is Marie Curie?
RAD
What is Radiation Absorbed Dose?
The quarks of a neutron.
The home of the first man-made nuclear reactor.
What is Chicago, or the Chicago Stagg Field?
The nickname for the bomb in the Trinity tests.
What is the "Gadget"?
The creator of the first nuclear reactor.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
ALARA
What is As Low As Reasonably Achievable
The decay products of a neutron.
What is a proton and anti-neutrino?
The project that tested the first Hydrogen Bomb
What is Operation Ivy?
The name of the largest bomb tested by the United States.
What is Castle Bravo
The discoverer of radiation.
Who is Henri Beqcuerel?
REM
What is Roentgen Equivalent Man
The 3 ways photons interact with matter
What is Compton Scattering, The Photoelectric Effect, and Pair-Production?
The name of the FIRST nuclear reactor.
What is the Oklo Nuclear Reactor?
The name of the failed project dedicated to nuclear-powered missiles.
What is Project Pluto?
Name one of the 4 scientists who discovered fission.
Who are Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassman, Lise Meitner, or Otto Robert Frisch?
NORM
The amount of energy released by electron-positron annihilation.
What is 511 keV